They hoofed it for 3 1/2 miles to State Highway 109. There they couldn't decide to go west to Winnebago or east to Delavan, so incredibly they decided to continue heading south.

Walking backwards 90 percent of the time, they went another 3 1/2 miles until they hit the big curve in the road.

Sandholm says he knew who lived in a nearby house and they felt their way to the farmstead since they could hardly see their hands in front of their faces.

When they got to the door, the couple was home and were amazed to see these two young men arrive at their doorstep in such a howling blizzard.

But, they didn't invite them in. The man of the house showed them the quarantine sign on the door there had been diphtheria in the house and the man advised them not to come in, but invited them to stay in the barn.

They didn't. They couldn't see where the barn was so they went back to road, and started walking backwards again.

Would you believe they eventually made their way all the way back to Blue Earth? That is about an 11 mile hike, in a snowstorm, walking backwards, in hip boots.

It took them eight hours to get home. They made it by 4 p.m.

Incredible. I know I probably couldn't do it walking forwards on a nice sunny summer day.

Sandy Sandholm's son Jon has posted the video of this interview on, where else, YouTube. You can watch it for yourself by going to this link: